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Automatic Music Transcription: An Overview Open
The capability of transcribing music audio into music notation is a fascinating example of human intelligence. It involves perception (analyzing complex auditory scenes), cognition (recognizing musical objects), knowledge representation (f…
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Enabling Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the MAESTRO Dataset Open
Generating musical audio directly with neural networks is notoriously difficult because it requires coherently modeling structure at many different timescales. Fortunately, most music is also highly structured and can be represented as dis…
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End-to-End Neural Optical Music Recognition of Monophonic Scores Open
Optical Music Recognition is a field of research that investigates how to computationally decode music notation from images. Despite the efforts made so far, there are hardly any complete solutions to the problem. In this work, we study th…
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Automatic Stylistic Composition Of Bach Chorales With Deep Lstm. Open
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Symbolic labeling in 5-month-old human infants Open
Significance Humans naturally entertain complex representations of the world based on various symbolic systems, from natural language to mathematical or musical notation. They recode the input into abstract symbolic representations that ca…
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POP909: A Pop-song Dataset for Music Arrangement Generation Open
Music arrangement generation is a subtask of automatic music generation, which involves reconstructing and re-conceptualizing a piece with new compositional techniques. Such a generation process inevitably requires reference from the origi…
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Verovio: A Library for Engraving MEI Music Notation into SVG Open
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Piano Performance and Music Automatic Notation Algorithm Teaching System Based on Artificial Intelligence Open
Artificial intelligence is a subject that studies all kinds of human intelligent activities and their laws. It is developed on the basis of the cohesion of many disciplines such as computer science, politics, information system, neurophysi…
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The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory Open
Music listening is one of the most pleasurable activities in our life. As a rewarding stimulus, pleasant music could induce long-term memory improvements for the items encoded in close temporal proximity. In the present study, we behaviour…
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Notation Cultures: Towards an Ethnomusicology of Notation Open
The ubiquity and diversity of notational practices in music suggest that notation is a significant part of human beings' musicking behaviour. However, it is difficult to address its function since the usual conception of notation in music …
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An user friendly Scheme of Numerical Representation for Music Chords Open
he standard western music notation for major and minor chords is available worldwide. However, understanding major and minor chords can be very difficult for learners, particularly children. It's challenging to memorize all major and minor…
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Automatic comparison of global children’s and adult songs supports a sensorimotor hypothesis for the origin of musical scales Open
Music throughout the world varies greatly, yet some musical features like scale structure display striking cross-cultural similarities. Are there musical laws or biological constraints that underlie this diversity? The “vocal mistuning” hy…
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Fostering Computational Thinking in Primary School through a LEGO ® -based Music Notation Open
This paper presents a teaching methodology mixing elements from the domains of music and informatics as a key enabling to expose primary school pupils to basic aspects of computational thinking. This methodology is organized in two phases …
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Decoding the dynamic representation of musical pitch from human brain activity Open
In music, the perception of pitch is governed largely by its tonal function given the preceding harmonic structure of the music. While behavioral research has advanced our understanding of the perceptual representation of musical pitch, re…
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PerformanceNet: Score-to-Audio Music Generation with Multi-Band Convolutional Residual Network Open
Music creation is typically composed of two parts: composing the musical score, and then performing the score with instruments to make sounds. While recent work has made much progress in automatic music generation in the symbolic domain, f…
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Striving for musical excellence: a study on the development of music players' skills for church worship accompaniment through ensemble training Open
The connection between music and the church is integral, especially during worship, where hymns require musical accompaniment. The musical experience influences congregational engagement and emotions. Given the significance of musical acco…
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Music Generation Based on Convolution-LSTM Open
In this paper, we propose a model that combines Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for music generation. We first convert MIDI-format music file into a musical score matrix, and then establish convolution …
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Agreement among human and automated transcriptions of global songs Open
Cross-cultural musical analysis requires standardized symbolic representation of sounds such as score notation. However, transcription into notation is usually conducted manually by ear, which is time-consuming and subjective. Our aim is t…
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Cantus: Construction and evaluation of a software solution for real-time vocal music training and musical intonation assessment Open
The development of the ability to sing or play in tune is one of the most critical tasks in music training. In music education, melodic patterns are usually learned by imitative processes (modelling). Once modelled, pitch sounds are then a…
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Transcribing Human Piano Performances Into Music Notation. Open
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‘One is the loneliest number . . .’: the semibreve stands alone Open
The 14th-century music theorist Jacobus devoted a complete chapter of his Speculum musicae (SM vii.37) to a critique of what he termed ‘solitary’ semibreves (semibreves solitarias). He listed several arguments against the moderns’ use of s…
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Structure-Enhanced Pop Music Generation via Harmony-Aware Learning Open
Pop music generation has always been an attractive topic for both musicians\nand scientists for a long time. However, automatically composing pop music with\na satisfactory structure is still a challenging issue. In this paper, we\npropose…
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Music predictability and liking enhance pupil dilation and promote motor learning in non-musicians Open
Humans can anticipate music and derive pleasure from it. Expectations facilitate movements associated with anticipated events, and they are linked with reward, which may also facilitate learning of the anticipated rewarding events. The pre…
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Reading music and words: The anatomical connectivity of musicians’ visual cortex Open
Musical score reading and word reading have much in common, from their historical origins to their cognitive foundations and neural correlates. In the ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOT), the specialization of the so-called Visual Word F…
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Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century Open
Reviews H. Colin SLIM, Pain ting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in iconography. Variorum: Collected Studies Se- ries, CS727 (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002), xii, 358 p. 98 b/ w illustrations. ISBN 0-86078-869-5. 117.95U5$. In…
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Analyzing Modular Smoothness in Video Game Music Open
This article provides a detailed method for analyzing smoothness in the seams between musical modules in video games. Video game music is comprised of distinct modules that are triggered during gameplay to yield the real-time soundtracks t…
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A Framework For Distributed Semantic Annotation Of Musical Score: "Take It To The Bridge!". Open
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Considering Equity in Applying Western Standard Music Notation from a Social Justice Standpoint: Against the Notation Argument Open
In this article, we consider Western Standard Music Notation (WSMN) as a normative communication system that, through representing certain cultural frameworks, may pose obstacles to musical learning, particularly in general music education…
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Global notation as a tool for cross-cultural and comparative music analysis Open
As long ago as 1971 Mantle Hood wrote, in The Ethnomusicologist, of “the chronic problem, transcription of non-Western music, and the chronic solution, ‘doctored’ Western notation.” With the recent resurgence of interest in cross-cultural …
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End-to-end optical music recognition for pianoform sheet music Open
End-to-end solutions have brought about significant advances in the field of Optical Music Recognition. These approaches directly provide the symbolic representation of a given image of a musical score. Despite this, several documents, suc…